El blog pretende publicar, principalmente, traducciones al español de textos y poemas de Henry David Thoreau y referencias a trabajos sobre dicho autor.
“Todo el saber en eso da: cuando es misterio en el misterio ha de ser por siempre jamás, hasta que el cirio de la muerte nos alumbre en la eternidad»
"Todo el saber en eso da:
cuando es vida en el misterio
ha de ser por siempre jamás,
hasta que la oclusión de la muerte
prenda la eternidad"
(solo el animal que conoce la muerte prendió un día el fuego y la eternidad)
Y si queda
Algo distinto a un viento, a un arrecife, a un mar,
Yo sé que tú serás, aun por la noche,
El ancla echada, los pasos titubeantes en la arena,
La leña recogida, y la chispa
Bajo las ramas mojadas, y en la inquieta
Espera de lallama insegura,
La primera palabra tras el largo silencio, El primer fuego que prenderal pie del mundo muerto.
“La premièr parole après le long silence,
Le premier feu à prendre au bas du monde mort”
Yves
Bonnefoy ( de “Las tablas curvas”. Hiperion, traducción de Jesús
Munárriz)
“As a medical doctor and a scientist, I had no choice but to dare to take legal action.”
“Today, we filed a lawsuit against the Japanese government for cancellation of the administrative action,” announced Dr. Masanori Fukushima
during a press conference on February 2, 2023. Because the Japanese
Health Ministry refuses to acknowledge the causal link between vaccines
and deaths, Professor Fukushima and a team of researchers said they “had no choice but to dare to take legal action.”
Masanori Fukushima
is an infectious disease expert and Professor Emeritus at Kyoto
University — with over 25 years of oncology experience. He has been
hammering at the cracks in the vaccine narrative and publicly condemned
Japan’s Ministry of Health late last year.
Quando ognuno era como un sigillo,
Di noi ciascuno reca l'impronta
Dell'amico incontrato per via;
In ognuno la traccia di ognuno,
Per il bene od il male
In saggezza o in follia
Ognuno stampato da ognuno.
Ora che il tempo urge da presso,
Che le imprese sono finite,
A voi tutti l'augurio sommesso
Che l'autunno sia lungo e mite
Primo Levi
("Agli amici", 16 diciembre 1985, fragmento)
Cuando cada uno era como un sello.
Cada uno de nosotros lleva la huella
del amigo encontrado en el camino;
en cada uno la impronta del otro.
Para el bien o para el mal
en la sabiduría o en la locura
todos llevamos el sello de todos
Primo Levi
(traducción Jeannette L. Clariond)
Ahora que el tiempo también urge pero las empresas se abren con las
fracturas de la tierra sacudida y no es posible el augurio de un otoño
largo y templado, quizás nos sirva recordar que todos llevamos el sello
de todos. Para el bien y para el mal
"Hoy ya no hay nada.Y en Europa, si se fija en los países más poderosos,
nadie responde. No hay nadie en lo alto de la tabla (...) Por eso lo
que ocurre es todo lo contrario de una guerra, con una máquina biológica
de un lado y, del otro, personas y grupos sin ideas, sin dirección, sin
programa, sin estrategia, sin lenguaje.Es el silencio"
(Alain Touraine, entrevista, EL País, 29 de marzo de 2020)
mientras el mundo, que
tardíamente se levanta, va al oeste.
HDT
(Traducción Guillermo
Ruiz)
LO QUE RECUERDAS TE
SALVA W.S. MERWIN
SOMOS EL ECO DEL FUTURO EN LA PUERTA NOS DICE QUÉ HACER PARA SOBREVIVIR PERO NO NACIMOS PARA SOBREVIVIR SOLAMENTE PARA VIVIR W.S. MERWIN (El río de las abejas, fragmento)
La nueva canción
Durante algún tiempo
pensé que había tiempo
Y que siempre habría
tiempo
Para lo que tenía en
mente hacer
Y que podría imaginar
Volver a ello y
encontrarlo
Como lo encontré la
primera vez
Pero ahora no sé
Qué pensé cuando
vuelvo a pensar
No hay tiempo y crece
todavía menos
Hay el sonido de la
lluvia en la noche
Llegando desconocido
en las hojas
Uno sin antes ni
después
Entonces oigo
despertar al thrush
Al alba cantando la
nueva canción
(W.S. Merwin, The moon before morning, traducción
Guillermo Ruiz)
VIEJO Y SOLITARIO EN
LA MAÑANA EN CASA
Hay cuestiones que ya
no planteo
Y otras que no he
preguntado hace mucho
A las que vuelvo,
quito el polvo y descubro
Que estoy sonriendo y
la cuestión
He sido siempre yo
mismo y esto no es
Ninguna cuestión en
absoluto sino que significa
Diferentes cosas a la
vez
Sí soy viejo ahora y
soy el niño
Recuerdo los llamados
días pasados y no hay
Nadie que pregunte
cómo llegaron a días pasados
Y si me pregunto a mí
mismo no hay respuesta
Así esto es pasado y
en lo que me he convertido
Y la respuesta es algo
a lo que llegaría
Más tarde cuando fui
viejo pero esta mañana
No es vieja y yo soy
la mañana
En la cual las hojas
otoñales no tienen pregunta
Mientras la brisa las
atraviesa y se pierde
(W.S. Merwin, Garden,
traducción Guillermo Ruiz)
GIFT/REGALO (II)
Tengo que confiar en
lo que me fue otorgado
Si quiero confiar en
algo
Condujo las estrellas
sobre la montaña sin sombra
Qué recuerda en su
noche y silencio
Qué no tiene esperanza
de conocer por sí mismo, no es criatura del tiempo
Lo que no comenzó no
termina
Tengo que alzarlo con
mis manos como mis costillas alzan mi corazón
De nuevo en la montaña
tengo que volverme
A la mañana
Debo ser guiado por lo
que me fue concedido
Como las corrientes
son conducidas
Y el trenzado vuelo de
los pájaros
El escrutinio de las
venas el aprendizaje de las plantas
(W. S. MERWIN PASSED AWAY IN
MAUI ON MARCH 15, 2019)
El único epitafio:
“Vive tan sabio como
el día que nació”
Tratamos de salvar lo
que está pasando, aunque solo sea describiéndolo, diciéndolo, sabiendo todo el
tiempo que no podemos hacer ninguna de estas cosas. La necesidad de decirlo, y
el conocimiento de su imposibilidad ¿ No es ésta la razón por la que
escribimos?
W.S. Merwin
PORQUE NO ESTÁ AQUÍ ES ETERNO LAS ESTRELLAS QUE VEMOS SE APAGARON HACE MUCHO
(...)
Y LA MAÑANA DE LO QUE NO CONOZCO ME TRAE DE VUELTA CADA COSA QUE RECUERDO INCLUSO CUANDO SE FUE Y SÉ QUE SE HA IDO Y SÉ QUE NUNCA LA VERÉ OTRA VEZ SE ME APARECE OTRA VEZ CASI COMPLETA EN SU PROPIO TIEMPO Y DE NUEVO IDA ME ESTABA MIRANDO MIENTRAS DORMÍA
W.S. Merwin
(The Eternal Return, in Moon Before Morning
(2014); traducción Guillermo Ruiz)
makers of multiplication and series
they never touch what is awake here
and is not waiting nor asking nor fashioned but is one with the uneven current of breathing with the silence untouched by the rush of noise
–W. S. Merwin, Artisan world, from his book The
Moon Before Morning
"pero la felicidad tiene una forma hecha de aire nunca fue poseída por nadie viene cuando ella quiere en su propio tiempo"
W.S. Merwin (December morning)
Cuando nosotros olvidamos otros recordarán: ninguna acción ni espíritu
sobre la tierra es sin sus infinitas reverberaciones
W.S.
Merwin THE MORNING
La amaría así si pudiera durar la amaría así si fuera todo el cielo el único paraíso o si pudiera creer que me pertenece una posesión que fue solo mía o si imaginé que me percibió reconoció y puede haber venido a verme procedente de todas las mañanas que nunca conocí y de todas las que he olvidado la amaría así si estuviera en otro sitio o fuera más joven por primera vez o si estos pájaros no estuvieran cantando o no pudiera oírlos o ver sus árboles la amaría así si estuviera sufriendo rojo tormento del cuerpo o gris vacío de la pena la amaría así si hubiera sabido que recordaría cualquier cosa que es aquí ahora cualquier cosa cualquiera
W.S. Merwin (Garden Time, 2016) (traducción Guillermo Ruiz)
Thoreau dice:
"Es por el trabajo paciente y no ansioso en el yunque que mañanas
mejores son logradas."
“Mañana mejor” puede ser la mañana o el mañana, o las dos cosas
Esta es la zona en la que #biología y #derecho convergían Si se niega la "inmunidad" por infección, o la decisión sobre su resultado, no hay derecho individual alguno
i) Ni la prevención del SARS-COV-2 ni la inmunización frente al SARS-COV-2 podrían constituir la razón legal para la inoculación de las vacunas https://t.co/Rvg765J1Gp
ii) Asimismo, ni la prevención del SARS-COV-2 la inmunización frente al SARS-COV-2 podrían constituir la razón legal para exigir cualquier certificado de vacunación SARS-COV-2 con la misma finalidad https://t.co/Rvg765J1Gp
iii) Para impugnar legalmente cualesquiera obligaciones de vacunación solo sería necesario evidenciar que las vacunas SARS-COV-2 no se diseñaron para prevenir la enfermedad o producir inmunización frente a ella, así como que no proporcionan dicha prevención e inmunización https://t.co/Rvg765J1Gp
iii) Para impugnar legalmente cualesquiera obligaciones de vacunación solo sería necesario evidenciar que las vacunas SARS-COV-2 no se diseñaron para prevenir la enfermedad o producir inmunización frente a ella, así como que no proporcionan dicha prevención e inmunización https://t.co/Rvg765J1Gp
iv) Las obligaciones de vacunación y los certificados de vacunación deberían ser por ello considerados con arreglo a su verdadera naturaleza y realidad médicas : obligaciones legales de seguir un determinado tratamiento médico https://t.co/Rvg765J1Gp
No conocemos ningún precedente legal que haya establecido tales obligaciones y las consideramos patentemente inconstitucionales https://t.co/Rvg765J1Gp
Four of the highest ranking U.S. health officials—including Dr.Anthony Fauci—met in secret to discuss whether or not naturally immune people should be exempt from getting COVID-19 vaccines, The Epoch Times can reveal.
The officials brought in four outside experts to discuss whether the protection gained after recovering from COVID-19—known asnatural immunity—should count as one or more vaccine doses.
“There was interest in several people in the administration in hearing basically the opinions of four immunologists in terms of what we thought about … natural infection as contributing to protection against moderate to severe disease, and to what extent that should influence dosing,” Dr. Paul Offit, one of the experts, told The Epoch Times.
Offit and another expert took the position that the naturally immune need fewer doses. The other two experts argued natural immunity shouldn’t count as anything.
The discussion did not lead to a change in U.S. vaccination policy, which has never acknowledged post-infection protection. Fauci and the other U.S. officials who heard from the experts have repeatedly downplayed that protection, claiming that it is inferior to vaccine-bestowed immunity. Most studies on the subject indicate the opposite.
The meeting, held in October 2021, was briefly discussed before on a podcast. The Epoch Times has independently confirmed the meeting took place, identified all of the participants, and uncovered other key details.
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of medicine at Stanford University who did not participate in the meeting, criticized how such a consequential discussion took place behind closed doors with only a few people present.
“It was a really impactful decision that they made in private with a very small number of people involved. And they reached the wrong decision,” Bhattacharya told The Epoch Times.
An email obtained by The Epoch Times shows Dr. Vivek Murthy contacting colleagues to arrange the meeting. (The Epoch Times)
The Participants
From the government:
Fauci, the head of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden until the end of 2022
Dr. Vivek Murthy, the U.S. surgeon general
Dr.Rochelle Walensky, the head of U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Dr. Francis Collins, head of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, which includes the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, until December 2021
Dr. Bechara Choucair, the White House vaccine coordinator until November 2021
From outside the government:
Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and an adviser to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on vaccines
Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota and a former member of Biden’s COVID-19 advisory board
Akiko Iwasaki, professor of immunobiology and molecular, cellular, and developmental biology at Yale University
Dr. Peter Hotez, co-director of Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development and dean of the Baylor College of Medicine’s School of Tropical Medicine
Fauci and Murthy decided to hold the meeting, according to emails The Epoch Times obtained.
“Would you be available tonight from 9-9:30 for a call with a few other scientific colleagues on infection-induced immunity? Tony and I just discussed and were hoping to do this sooner rather than later if possible,” Murthy wrote in one missive to Fauci, Walensky, and Collins.
All three quickly said they could make it.
Walensky asked who would be there.
Murthy listed the participants. “I think you know all of them right?” he said.
Walensky said she knew all but one person. “Sounds like a good crew,” she added.
‘Clear Benefit’
During the meeting, Offit put forthhis position—that natural immunity should count as two doses.
At the time, the CDC recommended three shots—a two-dose primary series and a booster—for many Americans 18 and older, soon expanding that advice to all adults, even though trials of the boosters only analyzed immunogenicity and efficacy among those without evidence of prior infection.
Osterholm sided with Offit, but thought that having recovered from COVID-19 should only count as a single dose.
“I added my voice at the meeting to count an infection as equivalent to a dose of vaccine! I’ve always believed hybrid immunity likely provides the most protection,” Osterholm told The Epoch Times via email.
Hybrid immunity refers to getting a vaccine after recovering from COVID-19.
Some papershavefoundvaccination after recovery boosts antibodies, which are believed to be a correlate of protection. Other research hasshownthat the naturally immune have a higher risk of side effects than those who haven’t recovered from infection. Some experts believe the risk is worth the benefit but others do not.
Hotez and Iwasaki, meanwhile, made the case that natural immunity should not count as any dose—as has been the case in virtually the entire United States since the COVID-19 vaccines were first rolled out.
Iwasaki referred to a British preprint study, soon after published in Nature, that concluded, based on survey data, that the protection from the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines was heightened among people with evidence of prior infection. She also noted a studyshe worked on that found the naturally immune had higher antibody titers than the vaccinated, but that the vaccinated “reached comparable levels of neutralization responses to the ancestral strain after the second vaccine dose.” The researchers also discovered T cells—thought to protect against severe illness—were boosted by vaccination.
There’s a “clear benefit” to boosting regardless of prior infection, Iwasaki, who has since received more than $2 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), told participants after the meeting in an email obtained by The Epoch Times. Hotez received $789,000 in grants from the NIH in fiscal year 2020, and has received other grants totaling millions in previous years. Offit, who co-invented the rotavirus vaccine, received $3.5 million in NIH grants from 1985 through 2004.
Hotez declined interview requests through a spokesperson. Iwasaki did not respond to requests for comment.
No participants represented experts like Bhattacharya who say that the naturally immune generally don’t need any doses at all.
In an email obtained by The Epoch Times, Akiko Iwasaki wrote to other meeting participants shortly after the meeting ended. (The Epoch Times)
Public Statements
In public, Hotez repeatedly portrayed natural immunity as worse than vaccination, including citing the widely criticized CDC paper, which drew from just two months of testing in a single state.
In one post on Twitter on Oct. 29, 2021, he referred to another CDC study, which concluded that the naturally immune were five times as likely to test positive compared to vaccinated people with no prior infection, and stated: “Still more evidence, this time from @CDCMMWR showing that vaccine-induced immunity is way better than infection and recovery, what some call weirdly ‘natural immunity’. The antivaccine and far right groups go ballistic, but it’s the reality.”
That same day, the CDC issued a “science brief” that detailed the agency’s position on natural immunity versus the protection from vaccines. The brief, which has never been updated, says that available evidence shows both the vaccinated and naturally immune “have a low risk of subsequent infection for at least 6 months” but that “the body of evidence for infection-induced immunity is more limited than that for vaccine-induced immunity.”
Evidence shows that vaccination after infection, or hybrid immunity, “significantly enhances protection and further reduces risk of reinfection” and is the foundation of the CDC’s recommendations, the agency said.
Several months later, the CDCacknowledgedthat natural immunity was superior to vaccination against the Delta variant, which was displaced in late 2021 by Omicron. The CDC, which hasmade misleading representations before on the evidence supporting vaccination of the naturally immune, did not respond to a request for comment regarding whether the agency will ever update the brief.
Iwasaki had initially been open to curbing the number of doses for the naturally immune—”I think this supports the idea of just giving one dose to people who had covid19,” she said in response to one Twitter post in early 2021, which is restricted from view—but later came to argue that each person who is infected has a different immune response, and that the natural immunity, even if strong initially, wanes over time.
Osterholm has knocked people who claim natural immunity is weak or non-existent, but has also claimed that vaccine-bestowed immunity is better. Osterholm also changed the stance he took in the meeting just several months later, saying in February 2022 that “we’ve got to make three doses the actual standard” while also “trying to understand what kind of immunity we get from a previous infection.”
Offit has been the leading critic on the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, which advises U.S. regulators on vaccines, over their authorizations of COVID-19 boosters. Offit has said boosters are unnecessary for the young and healthy because they don’t add much to the primary series. He also criticized regulators for authorizing updated shotswithout consulting the committee andabsent clinical data. Two of the top U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials resigned over the booster push. No FDA officials were listed on invitations to the secret meeting on natural immunity.
Fauci and Walensky Downplay Natural Immunity
Fauci and Walensky, two of the most visible U.S. health officials during the pandemic, have repeatedly downplayed natural immunity.
Fauci, who said in an email in March 2020 that he assumed there would be “substantial immunity post infection,” would say later that natural immunity was real but that the durability was uncertain. He noted the studies finding higher antibody levels from hybrid immunity.
In September 2021, months after claiming that vaccinated people “can feel safe that they are not going to get infected,” Fauci said that he did not have “a really firm answer” on whether the naturally immune should get vaccinated.
“It is conceivable that you got infected, you’re protected—but you may not be protected for an indefinite period of time,” Fauci said on CNN when pressed on the issue. “So I think that is something that we need to sit down and discuss seriously.”
After the meeting, Fauci would say that natural immunity and vaccine-bestowed immunity both wane, and that people should get vaccinated regardless of prior infection to boost their protection.
Walensky, before she became CDC director, signed a document called theJohn Snow Memorandumin response to theGreat Barrington Declaration, which Bhattacharya coauthored. The declaration called for focused protection of the elderly and otherwise infirm, stating, “The most compassionate approach that balances the risks and benefits of reaching herd immunity, is to allow those who are at minimal risk of death to live their lives normally to build up immunity to the virus through natural infection, while better protecting those who are at highest risk.”
The memorandum, in contrast, said there was “no evidence for lasting protective immunity to SARS-CoV-2 following natural infection” and supported the harsh lockdown measures that had been imposed in the United States and elsewhere.
In March 2021, after becoming director, Walenskyreleased recommendationsthat the naturally immune get vaccinated, noting that there was “substantial durability” of protection six months after infection but that “rare cases of reinfection” had been reported.
Walensky hyped the CDC study on natural immunity in August 2021, and the second study in October 2021. But when thethird papercame out concluding natural immunity was superior, she did not issue a statement. Walensky later told a blogthat the study found natural immunity provided strong protection, “perhaps even more so than those who had been vaccinated and not yet boosted.”
But, because it came before Omicron, she said, “it’s not entirely clear how that protection works in the context of Omicron and boosting.”
Walensky, Murthy, and Collins did not respond to requests for interviews. Fauci, who stepped down from his positions in late 2022, could not be reached.
Murthy and Collins also portrayed natural immunity as inferior. “From the studies about natural immunity, we are seeing more and more data that tells us that while you get some protection from natural infection, it’s not nearly as strong as what you get from the vaccine,” Murthy said on CNN about two months before the meeting. Collins, in a series of blog posts, highlighted the studies showing higher antibody levels after vaccination and urged people to get vaccinated. He also voiced support for vaccine mandates.
Vaccine Guidance Not Altered
Some other countries offered the naturally immune benefits.
Just days after U.S. officials heard from the experts, Israel announced that people who presented serological proof of prior infection could get a “green pass,” which was required in the country to enter certain venues, for six months. Some European Union countries said the naturally immune only needed a single dose, instead of two, to receive a digital certificate, enabling free movement within the bloc. The United Kingdom’s travel pass was available to people who tested positive for COVID-19 if the test was within the previous 180 days.
But U.S. policy on vaccines, which has been the basis for vaccination mandates across sectors such as education and health care, was not altered at all in the wake of the meeting.
“I think it’s because the opinions were sort of generally diverse, so there wasn’t a clear, unified message that came out of that,” Offit told The Epoch Times, adding via email that there was “generally a divide among participants about how to think about this,” with “no firm conclusions.”
Bhattacharya said that the discussion happened too late, asserting it was already clear in 2020 that natural immunity protected against both severe disease and reinfection.
“The fact that the head of the CDC and the surgeon general both seem to have ignored these basic scientific facts is a scandal,” he said. “And it resulted in countless Americans losing their jobs for nothing.”
In 2022, the CDC did say that people who recovered from COVID-19 could wait up to three months after infection to get vaccinated, stating that reinfection “is less likely in the weeks to months after infection” and that waiting “might result in an improved immune response to vaccination.”
Over time, some other U.S. policies came to acknowledge natural immunity. Walensky in April 2022 (pdf), for instance, whenordering the endof a public health policy called Title 42, said that she was doing so because deaths and hospitalizations in the Omicron era were lower “due, in part, to widespread population immunity.”
A connecting footnote stated, “In addition to vaccine-induced immunity, studies have consistently shown that infection with SARS-CoV-2 lowers an individual’s risk of subsequent infection and an even lower risk of hospitalization and death.” SARS-CoV-2 causes COVID-19.
In August 2022, the CDCeased its COVID-19 guidelines, stating in part that “persons who have had COVID-19 but are not vaccinated have some degree of protection against severe illness from their previous infection.”
And on Jan. 26, the FDAconvenedOffit and the other advisers on the vaccine advisory committee to consider various vaccine-related issues. Among them? Whether the naturally immune should be advised to only get one shot, even if they’ve never been vaccinated before.
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